Phyllis McGinley Quotes

• Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

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• Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

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• The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Garden

• A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe; she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can’t fold a paper in a crowded train.

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• Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

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• When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

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• Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

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• Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

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• Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

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• Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

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• Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

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• Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday’s triumphant Cause.

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• Marriage was all a woman’s idea and for man’s acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

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• In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

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• Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

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• Getting along with men isn’t what’s truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.

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• A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

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• I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.

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  Topics in Age, Funny

• Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the cave, the tribal teepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions. Every age has seen it so. The poor might have to huddle together in cities for need’s sake, and the frontiersman cling to his neighbors for the sake of protection. But in each civilization, as it advanced, those who could afford it chose the luxury of a withdrawing-place.

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  Topics in Age, Funny

Phyllis McGinley (19)

Birth:	21st March, 1905
Death:	22nd February, 1978
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author

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